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One day, as he nonchalantly reaches for a match, Leonardo da Vinci’s life is suddenly transformed.

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  • Hamartia@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 hours ago

    These match books have card matches so they are difficult to strike like a wooden match. The card match is drawn through between the cover of the matchbook and the striking surface. So the ad on the front of the packet is a word play on the igniting mechanism. Larson’s joke here seems to be that Michaelangelo Da Vinci , one of history’s most famous artists, was inspired to become an artist by one of these everyday matchbook puns.

      • Grabthar@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 hours ago

        Yes, and these matchbooks went on to inspire both Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino and Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi as well. One day the four great artists were surprised to learn that the cardboard matches had been crafted by a great artist of the martial persuasion, who kept getting slivers from the wooden variety. Lovingly know to the four as Master Splinter, they went on to great adventures together in the sewers of New York.